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USDA revamps the National Poultry Improvement Plan website
Story Date: 8/8/2013
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Source: NATIONAL SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE COALITION, 8/6/13
USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced this week that it has significantly enhanced the National Poultry Improvement Plan (NPIP) website to provide updated information regarding NPIP-approved slaughter plants, participants by State in the NPIP, official State agencies of the NPIP, and Shell Egg Layer Flocks / Plants Approved for Export.
The program was established in early 1930, as a cooperative plan among industry, state and federal programs to provide diagnostic technology for the improvement of poultry and poultry products. Its initial target was the elimination of Pullorum Disease, which was rampant in poultry at the time. Later, the NPIP incorporated testing and monitoring for additional diseases of poultry and was expanded to include commercial poultry, turkeys, waterfowl, exhibition poultry, backyard poultry, and game birds. Today, NPIP plays a crucial part in domestic and international trade in poultry and poultry products.
For more of info, go to http://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/animal_dis_spec/poultry/.
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